Abstract
The philosopher is a fundamental mode of existence of the human being, yet it is experienced only by a minority, an elite. Those constitute, among themselves, a subspecies of Homo sapiens that is sometimes dubbed Homo philosophicus. Our goal here is to investigate, in depth, the philosophical foundations of this ontological-anthropological concept. We analyze the concept of the philosopher into three basic components: the thinker, the artist, and the mathematician, arguing that the three fundamentally participate in maintaining the operation of the philosopher machine. The following text can be considered a contribution to metaphilosophy, written as a structured opinion piece, encompassing a series of reflections drawn from the writer’s own experience as a philosopher. The mode of the presentation is a mixture of personal and experimental writing styles, intentionally avoiding the rigid form of overtly analytical and argumentative discussions. Although numerous philosophers will be discussed below, four key figures, Nietzsche, Russell, Heidegger, and Guattari, occupy a special position in our overall opinionated view on the nature of philosophy.
Highlights
I sometimes like to say that the mathematician turning to a philosopher, what is celebrated as the mathematical philosopher [17,18], is the noblest man or woman in existence
After the miserable failure of his mad “political revolution”, Heidegger’s infamous ontological turn has not been able to bear out its full fruits, maybe due to the deliberate politicization of the German philosopher by his ideological foes (I am speaking of philosophical ideology), which kept the field of Heidegger studies in a state that is, frankly, confusing and disoriented, notwithstanding some original attempts to restore Heidegger by a selected elite of his former students and entourage, such as Zubiri [95,96] and Gadamer [97,98,99], but without apparent global success though
Nietzsche and Bergson, Heidegger and Jung, they only pointed out latent directions, but never formulated systems
Summary
I sometimes like to say that the mathematician turning to a philosopher, what is celebrated as the mathematical philosopher [17,18], is the noblest man or woman in existence He is a dreamer and worshipper of beauty, not truth or the good. He is a loner, like the great philosophers, and, being an artist, is right in the middle of that perplexing perpetual carnival called Life. In conformity with the intended scope and style of this work, we will not attempt anything resembling an analytical argumentation regarding this triadic division or analysis of the inner structure of the philosopher into three components (thinker, artist, mathematician). The key objective of our admittedly non-analytical and unconventional approach is to demonstrate the very possibility of an alternative philosophical worldview
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